1. novel - Noun
2. novel - Adjective
3. novel - Adjective Satellite
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
News; fresh tidings.
A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.
A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G. K. Chesterton
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. Edith Wharton
You can have a men's novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the horse, but you can't have a women's novel with no men in it. Margaret Atwood
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. Don DeLillo
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Edward Teller
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Stanley Kubrick